Embedded fundraising leadership
A working part
of your team.
Senior development leadership and hands-on fundraising support, with clear responsibilities and reserved time to carry the work forward.
The work needs continuity
Keep important opportunities moving.
Donor follow-up, proposals, board preparation, and revenue planning all need attention between the big decisions.
For many nonprofits, that work sits with an executive director already managing programs, people, budgets, and community relationships. Even a clear fundraising plan needs someone with the capacity to carry it forward.
We join the working rhythm of your organization, learn the programs and relationships, and take responsibility for an agreed development scope. A designated lead coordinates priorities, prepares materials, and keeps next steps visible.
Your executive director and board remain essential to donor relationships and organizational decisions. We provide the preparation, coordination, and implementation that help them participate effectively.
What we can lead
Build the development capacity your mission needs.
Select the workstreams that matter most. The engagement defines which responsibilities we lead and how they fit the hours reserved.
Major gifts and donor relationships
Prioritize prospects, prepare donor briefings and asks, coordinate mission experiences with staff and board members, and document individual follow-up and stewardship.
Institutional funding
Manage funding priorities and proposal calendars, develop grant materials, prepare funder conversations, and coordinate reporting and renewal work.
Campaigns and communications
Develop the case for support, appeals, donor updates, and campaign schedules that connect the funding need to the work being delivered.
Development systems and team capacity
Keep CRM records and next steps useful, support pipeline reporting, prepare board participation, and establish routines the team can sustain.
Planned giving and long-term support
Where included in the scope, develop legacy program readiness, communications, donor engagement, and stewardship. Qualified advisers handle legal instruments, tax and investment advice, valuations, and estate or trust administration.
A practical starting point
The first 90 days:
understand, act, establish.
We agree a work plan at kickoff and adjust priorities as the funding landscape and your organization’s needs change.
Understand the position.
Review funding goals, current activity, donor and funder relationships, upcoming deadlines, and the systems already in place. Set priorities and clarify decisions and approvals.
Move the priority work.
Prepare the agreed outreach, proposals, conversations, and tools. Track next steps and involve leadership where their participation can move an opportunity forward.
Establish the working rhythm.
Review activity and results, document progress, and plan the next phase. Keep the development calendar, responsibilities, and reporting useful to the team.
The work plan is scaled to the agreed capacity. Each engagement includes leadership check-ins and a monthly progress summary; specific deliverables and quantities are confirmed in the scope.
Reserved capacity
A clear level of support.
Firm engagements combine a designated delivery lead, coordination, and quality review. Choose enough capacity for the responsibilities you need us to lead.
Implementation support
Focused ongoing delivery across a defined development priority.
Per month / 32 total team hours
Embedded leadership
Reserved capacity for development leadership and coordinated implementation.
Per month / 64 total team hours
Expanded embedded leadership
More capacity for several agreed fundraising workstreams and team coordination.
Per month / 96 total team hours
Plans of 32 hours or more have an intended three-month initial term, paid monthly in advance. The shared terms allow early exit with 30 calendar days’ written notice. Hours include preparation, meetings, implementation, and oversight. Additional work requires written approval.
Compare all firm monthly plans
| Plan | Hours / month | Monthly fee |
|---|---|---|
| Advisory and targeted support | 16 | $3,200 |
| Implementation | 32 | $6,000 |
| Embedded leadership | 64 | $11,600 |
| Expanded embedded leadership | 96 | $15,000 |
| Deep embedded leadership | 128 | $18,000 |
| Full capacity assignment | 160 | $21,000 |
The 16-hour advisory plan may be booked for one month. It provides targeted support. The scope and hours determine the level of ongoing responsibility; no plan includes unlimited access. Onsite travel time and expenses are separately approved.
Founder Led Consulting
Leadership that connects
the mission to the ask.
Larry Blake Harvey
Founder and Principal Consultant
Successful fundraising asks people to understand the work, see their place in it, and choose to support it. Larry Blake Harvey brings executive leadership and deep communications experience to that process, helping organizations connect a clear funding need with a compelling reason to give.
His work spans major-donor cultivation and institutional funding, including federal and state grants. Years of communications strategy, events, and corporate social responsibility consulting inform how he prepares the story, the experience, and the people involved in each funding conversation.
In a founder-led engagement, he takes a hands-on role in the agreed fundraising work: developing the pipeline, building relationships, preparing and making approved asks, and following through. Your executive director and board gain an experienced partner who understands their responsibilities and helps them participate effectively.
Experience behind the approach
From interest to commitment.
Across multiple organizations, his major-donor approach has made the mission tangible through carefully prepared small-group experiences. Program stops, executive and board participation, and tailored funding opportunities give prospects a closer understanding of the work. Individual follow-up carries that interest into a conversation about meaningful support.
In one executive leadership role, eight major-giving prospects became donors. He also led revenue strategy toward a $1 million annual goal, with the organization securing $950,000 through a mix of major gifts, grants, institutional giving, and earned income. Support included real estate assets.
That experience informs a practical approach to embedded leadership: connect the story to the funding opportunity, keep the next step moving, and build the records and routines that let your team sustain the relationship.
Direct founder involvement
64 reserved hours · $8,000 per month
An intended three-month initial term, subject to the agreed scope and early-exit provision. Founder-led fees reserve Larry Blake Harvey’s direct delivery. Separately staffed engagements use the firm’s managed consulting rates.
Review founder-led capacity and pricingA working partnership
Ready to give development consistent attention?
Embedded support works well when leadership is ready to agree priorities, share information, and participate in the relationships that sustain the organization.
Useful conditions for the work
- A clear funding need and an authorized client decision maker
- Access to the agreed donor information and working systems
- Executive and board involvement in key conversations
- Time for timely review and approval of materials
- A budget for the capacity and responsibilities selected
Let’s begin
What needs steady attention?
Tell us what you need to fund, the relationships you have today, and where your team needs more capacity. We’ll explore the scope and the right delivery arrangement.